騰 – leaping up, jumping up, rising

20 strokesJōyō (secondary school)#1420 in newspaper frequencyN1 vocabulary

The kanji 騰 means leaping up, jumping up, rising, advancing, going. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is トウ (tou); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is あが.る、のぼ.る (agaru, noboru). It is written with 20 strokes, under radical 馬 (no. 187).

Stroke order

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Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	トウ	tou
Kun’yomi	あが.る	agaru
Kun’yomi	のぼ.る	noboru

A dot separates the kanji’s part from the okurigana (kana written after it), e.g. まな.ぶ → 学ぶ.

Radical and components

Radical: 馬 (Kangxi radical 187). Components: 月・馬・并・一・人・大・二・杰.

Words using 騰

沸騰ふっとうboiling

Example sentences

水は摂氏100度で沸騰する。

Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius.

Tatoeba #143741

水は充分に加熱すると沸騰する。

Water will boil if heated enough.

Tatoeba #143759

国内は防衛問題で沸騰した。

The country seethed over the issue of national defense.

Tatoeba #173038

Kanji with the same radical

験馬駅駐駆騒驚駄騙馴

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